Please, do NOT force your toddler to hold the pencil the way a school child does, with 3 fingers on the pencil â you may do more harm than good. It is very hard to âunlearnâ a poor pencil grip later in life! Each stage of holding a pencil or crayon is dependent on how âsteadyâ the shoulder and arm muscles are.
In the equation of a straight line (when the equation is written as  y = mx + b ), the slope is the number  m  that is multiplied on the x, and  b  is the y-intercept, where the line crosses the y-axis.
The gradient or slope of a graph is a number which represents the steepness of a straight line or the rate at which the line rises vertically for every unit across to the right. gradient is how much height you achieve within how much distance... so you climb a hill...